[dabigv13]

Right, they threw a bunch of money at the drug companies. Which is great and a no brainer when the potential costs are dwarfed by the possible benefits.

But then when you have a vaccine, which in July did not have phase 3 trials completed but was still obviously a frontrunner with Moderna in terms of likelihood of being to market much sooner than others and with promising early trial data, and you've already thrown billions of dollars at less promising, less far along candidates, why would you not throw a few more billions to secure 100million more doses from Pfizer?

It is dumb. Height of pennywise, pound foolishness. If they did it simply because they weren't a part of Operation Warp Speed, even dumber.

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Flu vaccination is an entirely different animal than this. In March there could be 4 or more different vaccines all requiring different dose intervals and storage protocols. They will all be limited in doses, and none will be swappable with others. We need to identify who needs them, and can't waste the precious doses we have. This will be a singularly difficult vaccination campaign. And from what I see on the ground, there is very little coordination from the feds, the state, and the healthcare orgs that will be doing the shots.

[dabigv13]

Right, they threw a bunch of money at the drug companies. Which is great and a no brainer when the potential costs are dwarfed by the possible benefits.

But then when you have a vaccine, which in July did not have phase 3 trials completed but was still obviously a frontrunner with Moderna in terms of likelihood of being to market much sooner than others and with promising early trial data, and you've already thrown billions of dollars at less promising, less far along candidates, why would you not throw a few more billions to secure 100million more doses from Pfizer?

It is dumb. Height of pennywise, pound foolishness. If they did it simply because they weren't a part of Operation Warp Speed, even dumber.

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Flu vaccination is an entirely different animal than this. In March there could be 4 or more different vaccines all requiring different dose intervals and storage protocols. They will all be limited in doses, and none will be swappable with others. We need to identify who needs them, and can't waste the precious doses we have. This will be a singularly difficult vaccination campaign. And from what I see on the ground, there is very little coordination from the feds, the state, and the healthcare orgs that will be doing the shots.